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Feeding Apples To Cows 
I think you are all wrong in advising 
against feeding apples to cows. Of coui-ee 
a cow may eat too many at a time, and 
get a sore mouth, but after getting accus¬ 
tomed to them a cow may eat half a bush¬ 
el a day with only good effects, especially 
when on dry feed. I have fed hundreds 
of bushels of them, old Vermont farmer. 
We have lost three cows from eating too 
many apples, but we do not advi.se against 
feeding them moderately. Beginning with 
helf a peck and gradually increasing, ap¬ 
ples make good cow feed. If she gets too 
many the cow will bloat and usually die. 
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through using sewer pipe for the founda¬ 
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surface of the pipe makes it impossible 
for rats and mice to climb it, and it is 
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Use of Flag ” 
For the past 20 years we have been 
using from eight to 12 tons of .soft chair 
seating flag per year. This flag is all 
harvested withiu a radius of 10 miles of 
Rochester, and the principal flag-ueiiig 
concerns come to Rochester to buy their 
chair flag. Wherever you find a marsh 
you usually find flags or “cat-tails,” but it 
is only occasionally that you find a fair 
(luantity of growth of the narrow, soft 
chair flag. lienee, we would say that at 
least 00 per cent of the flag which grows 
is unfit for making seats, as it is hard, 
brittle, wide, and splits and cracks when 
being twisted. We used to buy this ma¬ 
terial .some years ago for .$30 a ton, but 
for this year’s harvest we paid .$100 per 
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New York. 
Storing Leaves 
About a year ago oue of your readers 
told bow he gathered leaves by raking 
them up in large piles and carrying them 
ill his arms up a plank into a wagon. I 
think if he will try our way he will find it 
a gri'at time and labor saver. We save 
all our old barrels to store leaves in; any 
old barrel that will hang together will do 
for this purpose, and it is astonishing 
how many leaves can be packed in one. 
Where the leaves are thick on the ground 
we don’t stop to rake until after we have 
gathered most of them. Take a piece of 
hoard, six to eight inches wide, and about 
two feet long, in each hand, and one can 
pick up a large quantity of leaves at a 
time and drop them into the ban-el. Hold 
the two pieces of board together to pound 
the leaves down. When the barrel is ap¬ 
parently full, put one foot in and pack it 
down some more. When necessary to use 
the rake, rake in small piles and move the 
barrel along, as that is quicker than to 
carry the leaves. We store the barrels of 
leaves away by packing them up three 
high, and when wanted for bedding it is 
very handy to take a barrel to the stable 
or poultry hou.se. MILTON A. BROWN. 
Massachusetts. 
Sweet Apple Syrup 
I would like to ask R. N.-Y. readers if 
any of them have ever tried boiling sweet 
apple cider down to a syrup. If one who 
has nice sweet apples will have them 
ground and pressed, and take about nine 
quarts of the pure juice and boil down to 
about three pints, I think that he will 
have a nice rich syrup that will be liked 
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333 W. 30th St., New York 
We have told several times about mak¬ 
ing apple eyrup from ordinary apples. 
The juice is filtered or strained after lime 
is put into it. The lime unites with part 
of the acid and forms a solid which can be 
strained out. This juice is them boiled 
thick, like any other syrup. It makes a 
Thick mass, like molas.ses, with a peculiar 
flavor. lias anyone tried boiling the juice 
from sweet apples? 
Tfce Maple Syrup Crop 
The total productiou of maple syrup in 
the United States is in the vicinity of 
fifty million pounds. This i.s equivalent 
to six miHIon gallons of maple syrup. 
The total population of the United States 
is in the vicinity of one hundred million 
people. This allows but half a pound of 
maple sugar, or half a pint of maple 
syrup per capita. The abnormal condi¬ 
tions of the past season have used the 
entire surplus, and I have not known 
wliere a gallon of maple syrup could be 
bought for more than four months. I am 
afraid that in the future the man who 
wants to buy maple products direct from 
the producer will be disappointed unless 
he gets an order in as soon as the first of 
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